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UPDATED 1/17/07

Here are the things currently in my fun-reading queue, in somewhat priority order:

  1. George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows
  2. Gregory Maguire - Wicked
  3. Gregory Maguire - Son of a Witch
  4. Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys
  5. Roger Highfield - The Science of Harry Potter
  6. Sarah Dunant - The Birth of Venus
  7. Joyce Carol Oates - The Falls
  8. Thomas Friedman - The World is Flat
  9. George Crile - Charlie Wilson's War
  10. Maria Dahvana Headley - The Year of Yes
  11. Esera Tuaolo - Alone in the Trenches
  12. Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
  13. Ann Leary - An Innocent, A Broad
  14. Gregory Maguire - Mirror, Mirror
  15. Jhumpa Lahiri - The Interpreter of Maladies.  Pulitzer-prizewinning book of short stories, one of which I heard featured on This American Life (episode 221: Fake I.D.)
  16. Geraldine Brooks - March
  17. Andy Hertzfeld - Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
  18. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
  19. Lynn Flewelling - The Oracle's Queen (Tamir Trilogy, Book 3)
  20. Gregory Maguire - Lost
  21. Tom Standage - The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers 
  22. Philippa Gregory The Other Boleyn Girl
  23. Chris Bohjalian - Trans-Sister Radio
  24. Rose Wilder Lane - Ghost in the Little House (rec from beba)
I am, of course, open to suggestions of things that I need to add to this list.

Date: 2006-03-02 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notmonochrome.livejournal.com
The World Is Flat -- this is incredibly dull. Friedman is So! Excited! to have figured out that outsourcing has happened and that we have a global economy, so much so that he repeats himself over and over and over and over....

His conversations with experts are similar to this:

Friedman: Hey! Guess what? I think X=X!
Expert: ...
Friedman: What do you think? Aren't I smart?
Expert: E... =... X.
Friedman: Yeah!
Expert: Yeeesssss. duh.</>
Friedman: I am so smart! Look! The expert agrees!

Date: 2006-03-02 09:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notmonochrome.livejournal.com
Err, the expert knows X = X, she's not trying to prove E = X. D'oh.

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